Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Peering into a near future that’s already starting to take shape around us. Prediction pieces are dangerous because they date badly. I’m writing this anyway, because thinking carefully about the trajectory of your industry is part of how you stay ahead of it. These are not facts. They are bets I’m placing with my time…

On learning as a competitive advantage when tools are changing faster than anyone can track. I have a designer friend who refuses to touch AI tools on principle. He believes that using them compromises creative integrity, that every prompt fed to a model is a skill you’re not developing yourself. He is losing clients at…

The conversation is happening whether you start it or not. Here’s how to own the narrative. Clients are asking about AI. Some are curious. Some are skeptical. A few are outright hostile, convinced you’re charging full rates for work a machine is doing. How you handle these conversations will define your business in the next…

After testing more than thirty AI tools over eighteen months, here’s what survived the cut. Every week there’s a new AI tool promising to revolutionize design workflows. Most of them are noise. A few are genuinely life-changing. After spending an embarrassing amount of money on subscriptions and an even more embarrassing amount of time testing…

What happens when your biggest competitor becomes your most useful tool. Two years ago I genuinely panicked. A client emailed me a link to a Midjourney mockup they’d generated in ten minutes and asked why they should pay me $3,000 for something “the robot could do faster.” I didn’t have a good answer then. I…